October 07, 2023

The myth of Helen is practiced in Rodogune by Sri Aurobindo

Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

[PDF] Indian Management: New Routes to Corporate Culture

N Chatterjee
… While the work done by Daniel Albuquerque in 2009 revolves around the principles of consciousness largely based on the philosophy propagated by Sri Aurobindo, influenced by the Indian Ethos Himadri Barman articulated on value 

Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges

A Olivier, MJ Lamola, J Sands - 2023
… In this regard, Husserl shares much with the East Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo and the Japanese philosopher Keiji Nishitani. Both argue, contra Heidegger, that the ontological investment in Being actually evades, elides, and …

[PDF] Role of Bhagwat Gita in Life Management

MK Trivedi - Intersections of Faith and Culture: American Journal of …, 2023
… [68] Aurobindo described the text as a synthesis of various Yogas. The Indologist Robert Minor, and others,[web 1] in contrast, state that the Gita is "more clearly defined as a synthesis of Vedanta, Yoga and Samkhya" philosophies of Hinduism.[69] …

Rabindranath Tagore Myths and Modernity: A Socio-Cultural Study of Selected Plays

D Deore
… Sri Aurobindo successfully explored his views on nationalism through the Greek myth of the play. The dramatist depicts the framework of Indian political scene of pre-independence period. The myth of Helen is practiced in Rodogune by Sri Aurobindo. This is …

[PDF] Phoneme and Mental and Supramental Vibrations

N Kumar - European Journal of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, 2023
… Such a vision of Sri Aurobindo who is the precursor of a new order of existence, to use his own terminology, the ‘Supramental’, the … In fact, the above mentioned vision of Sri Aurobindo provides a scientific thought and vision to the world of …

[PDF] SPACELESS SELF' IN SAVITRI: THE ETERNAL SELF OF SUPRAMENTAL MAN IN SRI AUROBINDO'S EPIC 'SAVITRI

K Nikhil - European Journal of Literary Studies, 2023
… ’ (1979: 281), says Sri Aurobindo in one of his letters on yoga. It is to be noted here that ‘evolution’ in Sri Aurobindo is not what we find in the realm of Biological Sciences, to be specific, in JeanBaptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. In Sri …

[PDF] Philosophy Of Nationalism In Sri Aurobindo's Bande Mataram

AP Jani - Journal of Namibian Studies: History Politics Culture, 2023
… Sri Aurobindo was indeed a versatile genius. Aurobindo is known as Sri Aurobindo in which ‘Sri’ means beauty of divinity. He had the divine qualities which … Much has been written about the philosophy of nationalism but Sri Aurobindo …

[PDF] India's Scheduled Caste list must be religion-neutral. Muslims, Christians are also Dalit

KA Ansari - The Print, 2023
… The critical Hindu reformist voices—Swami Dayanand Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, MK Gandhi, VD Savarkar, and so on—argued against a birth-based varna (caste) order and almost without exception understood …

Since of

S Friedman, A Nandy - Decolonisation: From Revolution to Evolution, 2023
… the most articulate ideologue of the British Raj, and the Indian nationalist and spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo. His purpose is to contrast Kipling's cultural essentialism with Sri Aurobindo's syncretic and inclusive alternative. Kipling serves …

Place, Spirituality, and Wellness in the East and the West: Exploring Psychological Mechanisms of the Legendary Gyanganj

J Basu - Place, Spirituality, and Well-Being: A Global and …, 2023
… Borrowing from the perspective of the Indian Yogi Sri Aurobindo, the authors critique Freud’s notion that religion is a kind of neurotic coping mechanism. Furthermore, they argued in favor of in-depth research into spirituality and mental …

[HTML] Governing with a lockdown beard: the COVID-19 crisis as a laboratory

D Landau, N Rageth - Gurus and Media: Sound, image, machine, text and the …, 2023
… Other figures, such as Vivekananda and Aurobindo, used the capital they accumulated through their religious activities to influence the sphere of politics. Gandhi is harder to categorise, as it seems his political and spiritual activities …

[PDF] 24 THE STUDY ON EDUCATIONAL THOUGHTS OF AROBINDO GHOSH: CONTEXT AND RELEVANCE IN PRESENT SCENARIO

P Bhaduri - EXPLORING NEW HORIZONS
… The guiding principal of the philosophy of the education of Sri Aurobindo was the awaking of man as a spiritual being. According to him real education is that which provides a free and creative environment to the child by developing his interest …

Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati 'The Martin Luther of India'

A SHARMA - 2023
… In the words of a famous Indian spiritualist, poet and revolutionary, Aurobindo Ghosh; “He was a mass of bare and puissant granite.” … · Aurobindo Ghosh 

[PDF] Existential Angst in Charu Sheel Singh's Terracotta Flames

DK Singh
… Besides extending the tradition of meditational poetry as found in Upnishads, Tagore and Aurobindo, it explores the process of one‘s wrestling with life in which one knowingly or unknowingly invents a way to make one‘s own identity for a …

[PDF] Bhai Vir Singh's Sundri: A semiotic reclamation of native meanings and imagination

H Kaur, A Singh - Sikh Formations, 2023
… The unity of life and its spirit was an important theme touched upon by contemporary thinkers of Bhai Vir Singh including Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore. It is through Creative Unity (Tagore’s term) that the essence of Sundri …

[PDF] Rise of Terrorism in Indian Freedom Movement

R Ramanujam, S Nagaraj
… Khudiram Bose attempt on the life of the Bengal Presidency Magistrate Kingsford on 30April 1908 at Muzaffarpur and the arrest of terrorist group including Aurobindo Ghose dealt a death blow to terrorist activities. Aurobindo’s ambition of an open …

[PDF] Nationalism within the Ummah: A Discussion of Atatürk in the Works of Kazi Nazrul Islam

BUHS Mohammad - BRIQ Belt & Road Initiative Quarterly, 2023
… 2 Khudiram was one of India’s youngest freedom fighters, and in the early 1900s, it was the public speeches of Aurobindo Ghose and Sister Nivedita which prompted him to join the freedom struggle. It is said that in 1908, Khudiram joined the …

Auroville Is…

SA Clarence-Smith - Prefiguring Utopia, 2023
… the original theoretical lens of (spiritually) prefigurative utopianism that serves to analyse and understand Auroville’s praxis in this work. … I consider the ‘utopianism’ conceived and practised in the Auroville context to be spiritually prefigurative, for the …

Auroville and Beyond: The Grounded Hopes and Horizons of Spiritually Prefigurative Practice–A Conclusion

SA Clarence-Smith - Prefiguring Utopia, 2023
… Auroville). While it is important to be aware of and address our shortcomings, I am also certain that recognizing and fostering the ways in which we enact and embody Auroville’… , spiritually prefigurative nature of utopian praxis in Auroville pervades …

Divine Anarchy? The Development of the Auroville Polity

SA Clarence-Smith - Prefiguring Utopia, 2023
… for Auroville as a polity, and how these are linked to its aspiration of prefiguring a spiritualized society. It examines the evolution of Auroville’… The chapter further includes a critical discussion on Auroville’s relationship with the Indian government …

Spiritually Prefigurative Politics in Practice: An Embodied Account of an Auroville Community Decision-Making Process

SA Clarence-Smith - Prefiguring Utopia, 2023
… This chapter is an autoethnographic examination of an Auroville community decision-making process that is prefigurative of a spiritualized political forum. It describes and discusses the inclusion of practices designed to facilitate the …

The Institutional Potential of Prefigurative Experiments: The Evolution of Collective Accounts in Auroville

SA Clarence-Smith - Prefiguring Utopia, 2023
… Auroville, specifically, the role of common accounts in prefiguring the community’s cooperative economic organizations. Given that this experimentation was initiated in the private sphere by individual community members and later shaped Auroville …

Polis

SA Clarence-Smith - Prefiguring Utopia, 2023
… This book examines Auroville, the largest, most diverse and long-standing intentional community in the world, … , Auroville uniquely draws on spiritual ideals to enact a prefigurative utopian practice applicable to all aspects of human society; …

Economy

SA Clarence-Smith - Prefiguring Utopia, 2023
… This book examines Auroville, the largest, most diverse and long-standing intentional community in the world, … , Auroville uniquely draws on spiritual ideals to enact a prefigurative utopian practice applicable to all aspects of human society; …

All Life is Yoga: An Introduction

SA Clarence-Smith - Prefiguring Utopia, 2023
… Today, we both live and work in Auroville, volunteering together on one of Auroville’s committees. A bus marked 'Auroville' travelling … member of the Auroville community, and I hope this work will also serve a purpose for Auroville. As …

A Spiritually Prefigurative Culture: The Uniqueness of Auroville's Utopian Practice

SA Clarence-Smith - Prefiguring Utopia, 2023
… In this chapter, we will look at a few examples of how practices in Auroville are uniquely … In the following, I will seek to elucidate the spiritually prefigurative nature of Auroville’s utopian … I will then turn to the example of town planning in Auroville …

'No Exchange of Money'? The Development of Auroville's Communal Economy

SA Clarence-Smith - Prefiguring Utopia, 2023
… Here, we will explore how the community’s founding economic ideals continue to galvanize, underpin and inform the emergence and evolution of Auroville’s communal economic framework, institutions and policies to prefigure an alternative …

August 22, 2023

The Mother’s influence, power, and authority

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006), and President, Savitri Era Party (2007). Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

10 hours ago — Where the Eternal Past throbs with the seeds of the Luminous Future..It is a place of peace, harmony and love, above all conflicts and disagreements.
12 hours ago — "Sri Aurobindo's life is a wonderful example of how yoga can be practiced even in the most hostile environment. We find this most strikingly in 'Tales of Prison ...
5 hours ago — Auroville Literature Festival (ALF) celebrates Sri Aurobindo's sesquicentennial & Roger Anger's centenary. It features writers, thinkers, translators, ...
by S GILL2019 — Sri Aurobindo wrote plays directly in English. He successfully imitated the blank verse drama of the Elizabethan cast. In spite of the variety of setting, theme ...
11 hours ago — In his famous speech delivered at Uttarpara Jaikrishna library on May 30, 1909, Sri Aurobindo said, “What is the Hindu religion? What is this religion which we ...

As a woman, Mirra could be equated with ‘Feminine power’, ‘Mother Goddess’, or ‘Prakriti’ in Sankhya dualism. Aurobindo exalted her, affirming ‘Mirra as the embodiment of the Divine Mother and his “Shakti” (spiritual executor of his will)’ (Banerji 2018, 39). In most Indian religious and philosophical writing, Shakti can be represented in four broad categories: the feminine power, the creative power of male gods and saints, the personification of this power as various Goddesses, and the three Mahadevis (Kuchuk 2022, 8). Thus, when Aurobindo referred to Mirra as ‘the Mother’ and ‘his Shakti’, he attributed all ‘three main aspects of the Mother: the Individual (that is, embodied as Alfassa), the Universal, and the Transcendent’ (Kuchuk 2022, 8).

https://www.e-ir.info/2023/05/04/fluid-encounters-between-east-and-west-aurobindo-and-mirra-alfassa-in-international-thought/

Sri Aurobindo accurately identified the nadir of our civilization in the 17/18th century and felt its rebirth beginning in his lifetime - he wrote "The Renaissance in India" in 1918.
Outstanding | Sri Aurobindo: A New Dawn | An Inspirational Hand Painted Animation Film... youtu.be/5W6AZpK0N0c via
Talk on "Sri Aurobindo and the Secret of the Veda" at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Kolkata, 12.8.23. Wonderful atmosphere, with intent listeners, despite the mid-afternoon heat.
Sri Aurobindo Chair in collaboration with Sri Aurobindo Society is organising a seminar on Indian-ness in the 21st century.
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Sri Pradeep Narang ji said that one cannot see Mother India suffering and bleeding. It is because of this Sri Aurobindo extensively wrote people to get involved in Freedom Struggle. Sri Aurobindo elevated the Spiritual nationalism in Indians to rekindle Indian-ness.
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Dr Beloo Mehra introduced the theme and the speaker, Sri Mathriprasad ji. He is the Chairman of the Aurobindo ashram. He is a renowned author and speaker on Sri Aurobindo 's work and philosophy
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Mathriprasad ji used two terminologies. Mystified miracles and determined miracle. Sri Adi Shankara invoked Ganga being from Kaladi in a remote part of Kerala. How was he aware of?. The same is the case with Gangaikonda Cholapuram.
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The next dream is World Union. The way to bring this unity is also described by him, the pathways; the detailed roadmap has been given. Here we can see Internationalism is growing in all aspects, though there is still a long way to go for achieving true world unity.
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Don't believe karma is fine. But do read it directly from texts and its Commentaries once before ruling it out. Essays on the Gita by Sri Aurobindo is complex but a good intro. Most Hindus are misinformed about Karma.
#Indian Thinkers Vs Superficial Thinkers of #West | Dr. David Frawley | Sangam Talks #india #bharat #philosophy #thinkers #adishankaracharya #patanjali #aurobindo #sangamtalks
Will Indian psychology be rediscovered? Sri Aurobindo called Yoga practical psychology. since a conference on Indian psychology in 2002, the situation has somewhat improved in India, but not yet enough. mariawirth.com/will-indian-ps

Misc. References:

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[HTML] Mirra Alfassa: Completing Sri Aurobindo's Vision

P Beldio - Religions, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mirra Alfassa’s influence, power, and authority are essential to the integral yoga according
to Aurobindo Ghose, yet most scholars have so far refused to examine their contours. …

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[PDF] Worlding Encounters: Indian Spirituality and Anti-Colonialism in the Life and Thoughts of “the Mother”(Mirra Alfassa)

RD BajpaiS Parashar - Global Studies Quarterly, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… In this paper, we trace Mirra Alfassa’s journey from a spiritual seeker to being anointed as
“… tional collaborations (as in the case of Mirra Alfassa) worked to achieve the nationalist goals …

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The life incarnate and the life divine: Spiritual evolution, androgyny and the grace of the goddess in the teachings of Mirra Alfassa, the Mother of Integral Yoga

N Kuchuk - Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
… At the same time, Alfassa deemed celibacy as necessary for … Alfassa’s complex attitudes
towards gender and normative … materiality is an important current in Alfassa’s thought, including …

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[PDF] The Educational Principles of Mirra Alfassa (The Mother) on Child-rearing Practices

A Das - galaxyimrj.com
… Mother Alfassa was well aware of the fact that in order to create great human beings for
the … For Mother Alfassa, children are a part of the supreme God who holds tremendous …

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[HTML] Fluid Encounters Between 'East and West': Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa in International Thought

RD BajpaiS Parashar - e-ir.info
… (Mirra Alfassa) were some of these fascinating figures. Here, we focus on The Mother (Mirra
Alfassa), a … nor static; Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa negotiated and often transgressed these …

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[PDF] EDUCATIONAL THOUGHTS OF THE MOTHER (MIRRA ALFASSA)(1878-1973)

SB Mohanty - researchgate.net
The Mother (Mira Alfassa) of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry as the founder of the Ashram
and its Centre of Education, was involved in education of children and started writing on …

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[BOOK] Death and transformation in the Integral Yoga of Mirra Alfassa (1878–1973) of the Sri Aurobindo ashram: A Jungian hermeneutic

SL Julich - 2013 - search.proquest.com
… This is not to put Mirra Alfassa on the couch, but to show the larger symbolic context
within which she was contained. This singular individual is also a universal one, and we can …

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[PDF] The Kabbalah, the Philosophie Cosmique, and the Integral Yoga. A Study in Cross-Cultural Influence

P Heehs - Aries, 2011 - academia.edu
… Par Mirra Alfassa, Aurobindo eut connaissance de plusieurs termes et concepts «
cosmiques », dont certains avaient probablement des antécédents kabbalistiques. Mais d’autres …

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Mirra Alfassa: A Western Occultist in Inda

C Rhone - Pomegranate, 2000 - journal.equinoxpub.com
Abstract" Pathotisme", which Theon said meant magnetism in antiquity, is a practice where
two persons, one psychically sensitive or a medium, and the other a protector and guide …

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Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship

M Jasanoff - Common Knowledge, 2008 - muse.jhu.edu
… For Edward Carpenter, anti-imperialism meshed with a radical understanding of homosexuality;
for Mirra Alfassa, the Parisian "Mother" of Sri Aurobindo's ashram, resistance to empire …
#MirraAlfassaTheMother #Spiritualawakening My book on Mirra Alfassa - The Mother is available on Amazon.
A humble offering at Their feet 🙏 This curated page attempts to provide a collection of materials related to the Supramental Manifestation on the Earth.. motherandsriaurobindo.in/Sri-Aurobindo/ #SriAurobindo #supramental
'Growing up with the Mother' by Tara Jauhar Growing up with the Mother is an experience not easy to put into words. “Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive but to be young was very heaven.” Read book at motherandsriaurobindo.in/disciples/tara
A review of my book New Biography Sheds Light on Sri Aurobindo’s Life and Teachings via
Sri Aurobindo and His Ashram in Contemporary Newspapers in two volumes, 1909 to 1940, compiled and edited by Anurag Banerjee, Founder, Overman Foundation, is available at overmanfoundation.org/publication-of
Namita Gokhale  | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The written word has always had an influence on Auroville. Named after philosopher Sri Aurobindo who was also a poet, playwright, and journalist, itis only natural that the experimental township in #
Watch Dr. Makarand R. Paranjape speak about Sri Aurobindo Ghosh's perspective of Swaraj here: sangamtalks.com/SriAurobindosI #SangamTalks
Join us as Dr. Bijlani sheds light on the Vedantic perspective, drawing from the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and Mother. Gain a profound understanding of death like never before. Register here for free: hellomyyoga.com/yoga-program/t #VedantaWisdom
[One may object that the study of these inner states belongs to the field of religion and has nothing to do with science. I think this is an error. Beyond the mask An exploration of human identity based on the work of Sri Aurobindo by Matthijs Cornelissen] infinityinadrop.net/matthijs/mc-id
[Sri Aurobindo As a Political Thinker: An Interdisciplinary Study, Som P. Ranchan & K.D. Gupta, 1988 Sri Aurobindo on Future Education: Theory and Practice, Chandreshwar Sharma & Som P. Ranchan, 2007 Soul making with Sri Aurobindo: A Dialogue Epic, Som Prakash Ranchan, JELL 2010]
[Theosophy and Integral Yoga: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-91) and Mirra Alfassa (1878-1973), the Mother. Genealogies of Transnational Religion: Translation, Revelation, and Discursive Technologies in Two Female Gurus of Esoteric Vedanta by Nika Kuchuk, University of Toronto]
[Mirra’s revelations: posthuman sexless supramental humanity... anatomical metamorphosis... and glorified body Mirra Alfassa: Completing Sri Aurobindo’s Vision by Patrick Beldio Department of Theology/Religious Studies, Scranton University, PA 18510, USA]
Patrick Beldio's paper on The Mother is quite impressive but he has corrupted it by importing sundry concepts and terminology from other traditions. Somehow, he seems to miss out the first occurrence of descent of Supramental force for which Sri Aurobindo's death was necessitated
[Worlding Encounters: Indian Spirituality and Anti-Colonialism in the Life and Thoughts of “the Mother” (Mirra Alfassa) by RAVI DUTT BAJPAI AND SWATI PARASHAR, Gothenburg University, Swede - Global Studies Quarterly, 2023] #SriAurobindo #MirraAlfassa
Savitri Era: Devotees feel the comparisons to be superfluous savitriera.blogspot.com/2023/08/devote X posts in original by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006) and President, Savitri Era Party (2007). Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
[Sri Aurobindo redefined philosophy by bringing in elements of seerhood and darshana of the Indian civilization. And he redefined Indian darshana by bringing in elements of Western thought that gave it additional vigor and suppleness.] -Pariksith Singh, MD
~Sabda newsletter intimates a long list of books relating to The Mother & Sri Aurobindo published since 2020. selforum.blogspot.com/2023/08/recent selforum.blogspot.com/2023/08/latest ~'s new book, SRI AUROBINDO: The Life and Teachings of a Revolutionary Philosopher at
Rainbow & the Other: Savitri Era Religion will cause the collapse of its predecessors rainbowther.blogspot.com/2023/08/savitr Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Founder, Savitri Era Religion and President, Savitri Era Party. Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.